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Is there air in space?
Question Date: 2005-08-19
Answer 1:

There is no air in space. Space is almost a perfect vacuum, but gas and dust particles do float around out there. There is some oxygen in space, but the majority of it has already been captured gravitationally by planets, stars, or any celestial bodies.



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